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J.K. Simmons meets his Other in trailer for sci-fi thriller Counterpart

November 2, 2017 by Ricky Church

Starz has released the trailer for their sci-fi spy thriller series Counterpart, starring Whiplash‘s J.K. Simmons. Simmons stars as Howard Silk, a low-level agency employee who discovers his opposite from a parallel world, a man very different yet similar in nearly every way to himself. The two Howards have to work together to stop an assassin sent from the other reality. Watch the trailer here…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Bu2DOM66g

Joining Simmons in the series is Olivia Williams (The Sixth Sense) as Emily Burton Silk, Harry Lloyd (The Theory of Everything) as Peter Quayle, Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland) as Clare, Nicholas Pinnock as Ian Shaw, Sara Serraiocco (Salvo) as Baldwin and Ulrich Thomsen (The Blacklist) as Aldrich. Also starring are Stephen Rea (V for Vendetta), Richard Schiff (The West Wing) and Sarah Bolger (The Tudors).

Counterpart will premiere on January 21st, 2018 on Starz.

Originally published November 2, 2017. Updated April 18, 2018.

Filed Under: News, Ricky Church, Television Tagged With: Counterpart, J.K. Simmons, Starz

About Ricky Church

Ricky Church is a Canadian screenwriter whose hobbies include making stop-motion animation on his YouTube channel Tricky Entertainment. You can follow him for more nerd thoughts on his Bluesky and Threads accounts.

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